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pol-ski · 11 hours

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Unique albino from Polish zoo named international penguin of the year

/© Gdansk Zoo, © Notes from Poland

An albino penguin born in a zoo in the Polish city of Gdańsk – the only one of its kind kept in captivity in the world – has been chosen as penguin of the year in an international contest.

Five-year-old female African penguin Kokosanka won almost 83% of public votes cast in the final round of March Of The Penguin Madness, an annual contest organised by Penguins International, an organisation committed to preserving and protecting penguins.

As a reward for her success, Kokosanka was presented by staff at her zoo with a cake made from herring caught in the nearby Baltic Sea, her favourite snack.

When Kokosanka hatched in Gdańsk in December 2018, her birth was initially kept a secret. Her carers feared that her albinism would mean she had poor health or that she would be rejected by her parents and other penguins.

Although Kokosanka was indeed initially rejected by her parents, with the support of her keepers she has grown into a healthy adult, well integrated with the other 84 penguins living at the zoo on Poland’s northern Baltic coast.

She has also become an informal face of Gdańsk Zoo, which offers Kokosanka-themed merchandise to its visitors.

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dopescissorscashwagon · 19 hours

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It's #EarthDay2024 And to remind ourselves of what's worth celebrating and saving.

📸 by Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto

#Photography

#Richard Bernabe #@bernabephoto #Earth Day 2024 #Photography #Ocean Life #Wildlife #Whale #Elegant #Penguins #Animals #Nature

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bootleg-nessie · 18 hours

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List of Extremely Cursed Knowledge

Having autism and ADHD is a blessing and a curse because on one hand, I’m basically a walking encyclopedia of random facts and information. On the other hand, a fair amount of that information is so fucked up that it’s not socially acceptable to share it with anyone. So naturally, I took every fucked up fact, every bit of twisted trivia, every bit of cursed knowledge that I could come up with off the top of my head and compiled it into one big list to post on the internet. Some of this information may permanently ruin your (you, the reader) perception of certain things. None of this information should have ever seen the light of day, and a fair amount of it was never, ever meant to be known by humans.

You cannot unlearn anything on this list. This is your chance to scroll past.

You have been warned.

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According to FDA standards, a jar of peanut butter is allowed to have up to seven (7) rat hairs before it’s considered unfit for human consumption. If it has 7 or less rat hairs it will still be sold in stores.

If I just ruined peanut butter for you, don’t google the FDA regulations on any other foods you enjoy.

Human teeth have 36 calories each.

The average human body has roughly 125,000 calories. This is actually relatively low, which makes cannibalism in humans generally unsustainable.

Human meat tastes like pork.

Penguins have been observed practicing necrophilia.

Dolphin vaginas secrete a substance that acts like an aphrodisiac on steroids. When scientists swabbed some of it on a chimpanzee’s penis, it masturbated so furiously that it had a heart attack and died.

Dolphins have been known to intentionally commit suicide if kept in poor conditions.

Scientists that work with cockroaches often become allergic due to exposure. Simultaneously, they also develop an allergy to chocolate and pre-ground coffee. Make of that what you will.

Dolphins have been observed masturbating using decapitated fish heads.

Dolphins have been observed getting high on pufferfish venom recreationally, sometimes even passing a pufferfish around like a joint.

There’s a LOT of rape across the entire animal kingdom. Like, a LOT. It’s especially prevalent in dolphins, otters, ducks, penguins, and primates, to name a few.

On a related note, female ducks have corkscrew shaped vaginas. Male ducks also have corkscrew shaped penises that measure in at a whopping eighteen inches.

The barnacle has the largest penis to body size ratio in the animal kingdom, with its penis being up to eight times as long as its body.

Chimpanzees have been observed using frogs as a fleshlight.

A disembodied human head weighs about 10-12 lbs and is balanced in such a way that requires you to use both hands to pick up.

Pigs will eat every single part of a corpse - including bones. In 2012 a farmer in Oregon was eaten by his pigs after having a heart attack and falling in their enclosure. This also makes pig pens a prime spot for dumping bodies.

A body will decompose faster if you fill the rectal cavity with yogurt before burying it

When burying a body, make sure to bury it in a heavily wooded area. If vegetation is too sparse and/or the body isn’t buried deep enough, it will be easily noticeable after a few months because plants will grow in much thicker directly above where the body was buried.

You cannot bury a body in sand, as sand is too porous. The smell will seep through and give away the location

The entire universe could theoretically exist as a false vacuum and collapse into nothingness at any moment without warning.

Any alien civilization advanced enough to detect life on earth is also probably advanced enough to destroy our entire planet almost immediately. At the peak of interstellar technology, the only limiting factor is the speed of light. If they decided to attack, we probably wouldn’t even know it was coming until the entire surface of the planet was already vaporized.

It takes three and a half rotations to fully detach a human head from its body.

Recently deceased bodies can experience rigor erectus, which translates to “death boner.” This is especially common in victims of hanging, as it’s primarily caused by trauma to the cerebellum or spinal cord.

There is an extremely real chance that you have unknowingly purchased a product that was made by modern day slaves at least once in your life. Coffee, cotton, fish, clothes, shoes, and technology are among the most vulnerable industries.

A decapitated head remains conscious for several seconds after separated from the body.

The entire koala population across Australia is currently undergoing a major chlamydia epidemic. It’s actually been extremely devastating for them and they’re currently facing the threat of extinction because of it.

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wachinyeya · 3 days

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#new zealand #birds #conservation #wildlife #wildlife protection #penguins #kiwis #kiwi bird #environmentalism #good news #science #environment #nature #animals

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feminempreg · 7 months

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This one I found on r/funny

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #the emperor #karlach #gale of waterdeep #penguins of madagascar #penguins

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nobrashfestivity · 27 days

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Constantin Brâncusi Two Penguins, 1911-1914 Marble

#Constantin Brâncusi #constantin brancusi #sculpture #penguins

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cristalplanetheart · 3 months

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#penguins #sea #frozen sea #snow

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asterwild · 1 year

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PENGUINS. all of them!

(not precisely to scale, but close)

#most species have a range of several inches and i was just eyeballin it #re: little vs fairy #wikipedia has them divided into two species (aus vs nz i think)#if this hadn't been so hastily put together i wouldnt have based it solely on wikipedia #and probably would've actually gone with the global penguin society who lists them as one #i'm no expert and have no idea what sort of taxonomical debates are going on & whether this is a hotly contested issue #but i did switch to just one when i updated this for prints and such #penguins #animals #animal art #birds #id in alt #all the things

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hometoursandotherstuff · 3 months

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#baby penguins #other stuff #penguins

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kness · 6 months

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Little friends.

The penguin figurines are available now.

#cute #ceramics #artoftheday #handmade #pottery #art #porcelain #winter #penguins #penguin #birdlovers #snow #adorableanimals #adorable #kawaii #aesthetic #desktop pet

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sovietpostcards · 1 year

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Moscow journalist interviews a penguin (1966)

#1960s #penguins #birds #winter #soviet #ussr #russia #history #photography #black and white

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great-and-small · 1 month

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Idk if other people have been following the March of Penguin Madness (zoo competition to name the worlds cutest penguin) but the aggressive campaigning from news stations for their local penguins has been my favorite part

Vote here! The competition is over soon

#animals #birds #penguins

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prokopetz · 1 year

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It just occurred to me that flamingos and emperor penguins are literally elemental opposites.

Flamingos raise their young in the middle of a lake of boiling salt as a sort of species-wide "try it if you think you're hard enough" to every predator on the planet, and emperor penguins achieve the same effect by having as their breeding season Antarctica in winter.

If a flamingo and an emperor penguin ever met, the consequences would be unimaginable.

#science #animals #birds #biology #zoology #flamingos #penguins

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avatar-firelordzuko · 4 months

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Katara & Sokka